Security Clearance Process Overhaul to Debut Soon

Over the next two weeks, a team of representatives from different U.S. government departments and agencies, including offices in the intelligence community, the Department of Defense, and the Office of Personnel Management, will debut a finalized framework for a wide-ranging effort to overhaul how background investigations are conducted. The new framework is called “Trusted Workforce 2.0” and, according to National Counterintelligence and Security Center Director Bill Evanina, represents the first time the legislative and executive branches are on the same page with regards to clearance reform. Foremost among the goals of the new framework is to reduce the backlog of clearance applications and get the average clearance timeline to below 80 days. Depending on their roles, members of the private sector are eligible for security clearances. Like their government counterparts, they have expressed frustrations with the current clearance process. Read the article at Nextgov.